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Item Decision Fatigue in Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review(Wiley, 2024-11-11) Perry , Kelsey; Jones , Sarah; Stumpff, Julia C.; Kruer, Rachel; Czosnowski, Lauren; Kashiwagi, Deanne; Kara, AreebaBACKGROUND: ‘Decision Fatigue’ (DF) describes the impaired ability to make decisions because of repeated acts of decision-making. We conducted a scoping review to describe DF in inpatient settings. METHODS: To be included, studies should have explored a clinical decision, included a mechanism to account for the order of decision making, published in English in or after the year 2000. Six data bases were searched. Retrieved citations were screened and retained studies were reviewed against inclusion criteria. References of included studies were manually searched, and forward citation searches were conducted to capture relevant sources. RESULTS: The search retrieved 12,781 citations of which 41 were retained following screening. Following review, sixteen studies met inclusion criteria. Half were conference abstracts and no studies examined hospitalists. Emergency medicine and intensive care settings were the most frequently studied clinical environments (n=13, 81%). All studies were observational. The most frequently examined decisions were about resource utilization (n=8, 50%), however only half of these examined downstream clinical outcomes. Decision quality against prespecified standards was examined in four (25%) studies. Work environment and patient attributes were often described but not consistently accounted for in analyses. Clinician attributes were described in four (25%) investigations. Findings were inconsistent: both supporting and refuting DF’s role in the outcome studied. CONCLUSIONS: The role of clinician, patient and work environment attributes in mediating DF is understudied. Similarly, the contexts surrounding the decision under study require further explication and when assessing resource use and decision quality, adjudication should be made against prespecified standards.Item Using searchRxiv for depositing evidence synthesis searches(2024-11-21) Craven, Hannah J.; Hinrichs, Rachel J.; Stumpff, Julia C.Librarians build detailed search strategies for evidence syntheses enabling the comprehensive retrieval of studies while taking care that no relevant studies are missed. However, this work may be wasted or lost if the review does not reach publication or if the search strategies are not included with the publication. Further, search strategies that are stored in article appendices may not be preserved in the long-term. To address these problems, we started depositing our evidence syntheses search strategies that we developed to a repository called searchRxiv (pronounced “search archive”); an open repository established by CABI Digital Library to support information professionals in reporting, sharing, re-using and preserving their searches. In this presentation, we will share our experience with searchRxiv, including the advantages and challenges of sharing search strategies as individual research products separate from reviews. For each challenge, we will share our lessons learned and solutions developed. We will also share pros and cons to using searchRxiv as opposed to a traditional institutional repository. Since 2022, we have been able to openly share 59 search strategies from 13 evidence syntheses using searchRxiv. Overall, we find searchRxiv to be a scalable approach for highlighting the unique contributions of librarians to evidence syntheses beyond publications, and for enabling re-use and reproducibility of our searches.Item Oral History and Human Subject Research: A Roundtable and Community Conversation on the Current State of Risks, Regulations, and Ethics Reviews(2024-11-02) Bravent, Jay-Marie; Boyd, Douglas A.; Dilger, Kirsten; Pieczko, Brandon T.; Terry, KopanaThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the interconnections between public health research and oral history. The 2022 Nelson Memo and 2018 EU GDPR have raised awareness about research data, public access, retention, and transparency. As research protocols utilizing interview procedures have increased, so too have the risks associated with interviewees speaking publicly about political and social issues. Threats and targeting of ethnic groups, undocumented immigrants, libraries, and the LGBTQA+ community grow, along with worries about social media shaming or job loss for interviewees. AI. Deep fakes. Identity theft. As the importance of oral history in this shifting research context and public spotlight continues to grow, projects must increasingly adhere to data privacy protections, retention guidelines, transparency regulations, and ethics review. Social science and humanities research protocols must meet new criteria from peer-reviewed journals, Institutional Review Boards, institutional research and legal office reviews, federal agencies, and funding organizations. How can oral history researchers and practitioners adapt and support each other? How should interviewers prepare, train, and anticipate new levels of peer review and public scrutiny? How do we navigate the different legal and institutional interpretations of “exclusion” and “exemption”? All while preserving academic freedom and open repository access to oral history interviews? Join us for a discussion of the current state (and future) of oral history within the frameworks of human subject research review, data requirements, government regulations, cultural literacy guidelines, and best practices for ensuring protections for interviewees.Item Mobilizing health equity through Computable Biomedical Knowledge (CBK): a call to action to the library, information sciences, and health informatics communities(Pitt Open Library, 2024) Allee, Nancy J.; Perry, Gerald; Rios, Gabriel R.; Rubin, Joshua C.; Subbian, Vignesh; Swain, Deborah E.; Wheeler, Terrie R.; Ruth Lilly Medical Library, School of MedicineThe twin pandemics of COVID-19 and structural racism brought into focus health disparities and disproportionate impacts of disease on communities of color. Health equity has subsequently emerged as a priority. Recognizing that the future of health care will be informed by advanced information technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and algorithmic applications, the authors argue that to advance towards states of improved health equity, health information professionals need to engage in and encourage the conduct of research at the intersections of health equity, health disparities, and computational biomedical knowledge (CBK) applications. Recommendations are provided with a means to engage in this mobilization effort.Item Pituitary Adenoma and Social Determinants of Health: Tracing PAths to Better Outcomes(2024-09-28) Virtanen , Piiamaria S.; Obeng-Gyasi, Barnabas; Brown, Ethan D. L.; Colter, Austyn; Koenig, Jenna; Burket, Noah; Szilagyi, Halie; Williams, Greer; Halalmeh, Dia; Wang, Hannah S.; Tinkham, Shawn A.; Vetter, Cecelia J.; Richardson, Angela M.Item Online Scholarly Presence after Completing IMPRS(2024-06-11) Craven, Hannah J.; Pieczko, Brandon T.This handout is intended for IMPRS students to promote and claim their scholarly items online, increase visibility and findability of their work, and making it easier when they apply to residency using the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).Item Uploading your IMPRS Works to IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks(2024-06-11) Pieczko, Brandon T.; Craven, Hannah J.This handout is intended for people presenting at the IMPRS Research Symposium to assist with uploading their posters to IU Indianapolis ScholarWorks.Item The Evolution of an Electronic Lab Notebook Community(2024-05-21) Dolan, Levi; Whipple, Elizabeth C.Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) products are intended to replace physical lab notebooks in basic science and clinical research labs. As part of supporting rigor and reproducibility in biomedical research practices, our library supports ELN implementation at our institution. We investigated how ELNs are currently being implemented by analyzing backend ELN usage data, then used the results to reach out to super users. Based on their feedback, we created a shared electronic lab notebook with reusable components and sponsored a training event led by LabArchives product staff. This sequence of library outreach and programming activities has increased the library’s understanding of our ELN community and diversified our methods for advancing best practices in data management.Item Methods for Medical Student Research Projects(2024-05-20) Dolan, Levi; Han, AmySymposium participation by invitation, no abstract submitted.Item From Search Request to Publication: Creating a Workflow to Highlight the Efforts of a Systematic Searching Service(2024-06-25) Vetter, Cecelia J.; Craven, Hannah J.; Stumpff, Julia C.Three librarians at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library (RLML) identified areas for improvement in a high-demand systematic searching service. The service lacked a way to track in-process searches, had a decentralized process for assigning projects, and did not capture individual workloads or the library’s search request backlog. After consulting with staff from other libraries, the librarians at RLML collaborated to develop a new workflow using a tool available through the university's Microsoft subscription. They created internal procedures to accompany the tool, conducted internal beta testing, and customized the tool to suit the needs of the service. To introduce the new workflow, the librarians engaged departmental stakeholders to show how the system could help quantify the effort of the evidence synthesis service and facilitate a more equitable distribution of workloads. They also conducted hands-on training sessions for librarians. The new workflow established a centralized waitlist for search requests used by all librarians and began tracking the stages and timing of systematic search projects. To ensure ongoing utilization of the new workflow, the library incorporated a standing agenda item in bi-monthly meetings to review the status of waitlisted search requests and encourage librarians to update project information. With the successful implementation of the new workflow, the library now effectively tracks in-progress evidence synthesis projects, manages a centralized systematic search request waitlist, and better highlights the efforts of the systematic searching service.